"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Versilia To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Versilia
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Versilia Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Versilia
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Versilia Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Versilia
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Versilia "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Versilia
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Versilia Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Versilia
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Versilia We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Versilia
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Versilia "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Versilia
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Versilia We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Versilia
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Versilia Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Versilia
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Versilia What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Versilia
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Versilia I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Versilia
